Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

Press Report

Yesterday President Ulmanis suggested amending regulations on naturalization to encourage potential applicants for naturalization. A letter by the President to the Prime-Minister says that "the time has come to change the attitude of the State to its inhabitants willing to prove their loyalty to the State and to become its citizens." The President suggests reducing the naturalization fee to three Lats (currently Ls 30) and to exempt day department students from paying the tax. The suggestions include canceling the provision that allows applicants who failed during a naturalization test to take the test only six months after the failure. The Prime-Minister's Advisor Jurgis Liepnieks told

Yesterday President Ulmanis suggested amending regulations on naturalization to encourage potential applicants for naturalization. A letter by the President to the Prime-Minister says that "the time has come to change the attitude of the State to its inhabitants willing to prove their loyalty to the State and to become its citizens." The President suggests reducing the naturalization fee to three Lats (currently Ls 30) and to exempt day department students from paying the tax. The suggestions include canceling the provision that allows applicants who failed during a naturalization test to take the test only six months after the failure. The Prime-Minister's Advisor Jurgis Liepnieks told "BIZNES I BALTIYA" that the Office of the Prime-Minister is studying the President's proposals. According to Mr. Liepnieks, Prime-Minister Skele supports amending the regulations on naturalization. Diena, SM

Yesterday the

Yesterday the Saeima ratified the European Human Rights Convention. All inhabitants of Latvia now can apply to the European Human Rights Committee and to the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg. SM